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===Quebec politics===
 
===Quebec politics===
He gained renown for his work in the field of civil liberties when Quebec was ruled by the  authoritarian [[Duplessis]] regime (1944-1959). He helped the provincial Liberals win in Quebec in 1960, but then turned away from their growing nationalist orientation.  Trudeau was always a strong advocate of the Canadian federal system, and repeatedly opposed all efforts to strengthen the provinces at the expense of the national government in Ottawa. He took leftist positions, opposing the deployment of American nuclear warheads in Canada. He campaigned against the Liberals in the 1963 federal election for the moderately socialist [[New Democratic Party]]  Meanwhile the "[[Quiet Revolution]]" was transforming and modernizing Québec, advancing a secularist ideology and a determination that the province should be freed from the long-time control of English-speaking businessmen.
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He gained renown for his work in the field of civil liberties when Quebec was ruled by the  authoritarian [[Duplessis]] regime (1944-1959). He helped the provincial Liberals win in Quebec in 1960, but then turned away from their growing nationalist orientation.  Trudeau was always a strong advocate of the Canadian federal system, and repeatedly opposed all efforts to strengthen the provinces at the expense of the national government in Ottawa. He campaigned against the Liberals in the 1963 federal election for the moderately socialist [[New Democratic Party]]  Meanwhile the "[[Quiet Revolution]]" was transforming and modernizing Québec, advancing a secularist ideology and a determination that the province should be freed from the long-time control of English-speaking businessmen.
    
===Parliament 1965 ===
 
===Parliament 1965 ===
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